The History Of Herodotus Volume 2 of 2

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68 (return) [ {es Leoniden}: this is
ordinarily translated "as far as Leonidas;" but to say "his ancestors
above Anaxandrides have been given as far as Leonidas" (the son of
Anaxandrides), is hardly intelligible. The reference is to vii. 204.]

69 (return) [ Most of the MSS. call
him Aeimnestos (with some variation of spelling), but Plutarch has
Arimnestos.]

70 (return) [ See ch. 15: There is no
sharp distinction here between camp and palisade, the latter being merely
the fortified part of the encampment.]

71 (return) [ {anaktoron}, a usual
name for the temple of [Demeter] and Persephone at Eleusis.]

73 (return) [ {ege katertemenos}: the
better MSS. have {eie} for {ege}, which is retained by some Editors
({toutous} being then taken with {inai pantas}): for {katertemenos} we
find as variations {katertemenos} and {katertismenos}. Many Editors read
{katertismenos} ("well prepared"), following the Aldine tradition.]

81 (return) [ {o Spartietes}: it has
been proposed to read {Spartietai}, for it can hardly be supposed that the
other two were not Spartans also.]

82 (return) [ One MS. at least calls
him Aeimenstos, cp. ch. 64: Thucydides (iii. [Footnote 52) mentions
Aeimnestos as the name of a Plataian citizen, the father of Lacon. Stein
observes that in any case this cannot be that Arimnestos who is mentioned
by Plutarch as commander of the Plataian contingent.]

87 (return) [ {oute daimonon oute
theon}: [heroes] and in general divinities of the second order are included
under the term {daimonon}.]

88 (return) [ Most of the commentators
(and following them the historians) understand the imperfect {ediokon} to
express the mere purpose to attempt, and suppose that this purpose was
actually hindered by the Lacedemonians, but for a mere half-formed purpose
the expression {mekhri Thessalies} seems to definite, and Diodorus states
that Artabazos was pursued. I think therefore that Krüger is right in
understanding {eon} of an attempt to dissuade which was not successful.
The alternative version would be "they were for pursuing them as far as
Thessaly, but the Lacedemonians prevented them from pursuing fugitives."]

92 (return) [ The connexion here is
not satisfactory, and the chapter is in part a continuation of chapter 81:
It is possible that ch. 82 may be a later addition by the author, thrown
in without much regard to the context.]

93 (return) [ "Whereas however the
body of Mardonios had disappeared on the day after the battle (taken by
whom I am not able to say....), it is reported with some show of reason
that Dionysophanes, an Ephesian, was he who buried it." The construction
however is irregular and broken by parentheses: possibly there is some
corruption of text.]

94 (return) [ {tous irenas}. Spartans
between twenty and thirty years old were so called. The MSS. have
{ireas}.]